[chef] Re: aws and chef do not play nice

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

Speaking of this, I noticed that private VPC nodes don't seem to have node['cloud'] or node['ec2'] defined. Is there a good workaround for this, to always force these attributes to get loaded on those nodes? I bake my own AMIs so if that helps, I'm fine with it.

On Wednesday, November 20, 2013, Julian C. Dunn  wrote:
> Part of the issue is that we have not yet found a reliable way in Ohai
>
> to detect whether a machine is running in EC2. Hence the hints file.
> However, creating the hints file in recipe code is not sufficient to
> populate node['ec2'] because by that point, Ohai has already run.
>
> You can create the hints file *before* you run Chef in a number of
> ways, one of which is that "knife ec2 server create" will take a
> --hint parameter.
>
> - Julian
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Jordan Dea-Mattson
> <
>  > wrote:
> > The issue is, I believe, that at the time you execute this recipe that
> > node['ec2']['instance_id'] is not defined. This is the cause of your failure
> > due to 'undefined method'.
> >
> > This is a Ruby runtime exception and is not 'managed' by 'ignore_failure'.
> >
> > I previously encountered a similar issue. It was due to Ohai not setting the
> > 'instance_id' appropriately on first run and was tied to a particular
> > version of Ohai.  What version of Chef and version of Ohai are you using?
> >
> > The reason it executes successfully following your first run, is that Ohai
> > is not properly setting the 'instance_id'.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Jordan
>
>
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